G8 protesters accuse British cops of torture: Who's Next?
Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF - Amsterdam, July 15th - 2005 - The light at the end of the tunnel'? Even if many of us 'have seen the light', and heard the clanking sound of the war machine before, all the time there's this promising; the same as many of us heard General Westmoreland, McNamara and all those other lying officials say when in Vietnam. It's the same lousy brainwash again. But they never said anything about torturing your or me, or about My Lai [http://tinyurl.com/c3ecj] and other massacres like Falluja, the US's 'Guernica', which they and their people were responsible for.
When former US Defense Secretary McNamara was invited to give some kind of lecture in Stockholm's Grand Hotel in Sweden, he was invited by the conservative neocon newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. It's owned by the Wallenberg family [http://tinyurl.com/7cwy8] - which together with the Bonniers family, [http://tinyurl.com/dmszb] - run economy and media inSweden. In their hands the former social democratic country started to turn totalitarian, making the Swedes - who did not want this but hardly had a choice - into what British corespondent Roland Huntford described in his book "The NewTotalitarians." [http://tinyurl.com/9q2bc]
After listening to McNamara's irrelevant lecture to which I had been invited, and which had no bearing on reality, as many thought, I walked down the stairs from the 2nd floor in the Grand with him, asking him to sit down on a small floor in between. Mc Namara did - but after a lot of stupid small talk - refused to answer my question: "Why the hell did you wait until you were pensioned, catching the reward of your misbehavior? And why are you now now playing some kind of 'peace dove'?
As any war criminal in denial - Ncnamara did not understand that it had taken him too many decades and millions of lives to come to the same conclusion - which every small child which can think normally is taught and makes on earth - if you think it's wrong, don't do it! The lesson was learned by all others who suffered. But not by the torturers and killers, the Internationally Monetary Fund, IMF, or their murderous World Bank and their 'Jacjkals' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/adxzj
So, looking in the neocon's abyss which is in store for us, are we supposed to go back to our future? After - with a certain pleasure - having lived in Scandinavia for many years, I still thought that people's behavior - contrary to the present day mainstream media - is not not like the lemmings - http://tinyurl.com/7qjgo
I'm sorry to say however, that we are our own worst enemy, and that we are molded that way by those who want 'to use us'. Whether you are a journalist like me, or a worker who too thinks; he or she is 'only doing the right thing'. That's what they thought too: http://tinyurl.com/8v6no
This is anyhow what is on our doorstep, as Gary Braden wrote in the Evening Times of London: of the few people (compared to the overwhelming police force) who protested and got arrested, there have been eight which have dared to file complaints and accuse the British police of using torture. I have experienced the same in different countries as a correspondent, but most of you will never have been in foreign police cells, or have been taken into custody 'at home', yet...
WELL, HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY'S STORY, AND JUST THINK IT MAY BE YOU, YOUR FAMILY ETC.:
FOUR G8 protesters may sue police after claims they were psychologically tortured and mistreated while in custody in Glasgow. They say that officers at Baird Street woke them up every hour as a form of torture, placed them in dirty cells and fed them sub-standard food and water that left them sick.
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland refuted the claims.
Protester Dr Martin Kraemer, from Poland, claimed he was charged with a breach of the peace for refusing to stop playing his clarinet in Glasgow. The agricultural scientist said: "The police wanted to provoke violence. In the end I was arrested for playing the clarinet. I found that funny."
He claimed he was deprived of sleep, woke every half-hour, locked in a filthy cell, stripped down to his underwear and denied water for periods of time. He has made an official complaint against the police for violating his basic rights.
Businesswoman Zahra Quadir, 24, living in Edinburgh but originally from Afghanistan, said she was dragged without warning to a police van during a peaceful Glasgow protest. She claimed the cell she was later placed in had excrement on the wall, floor and around the toilet seat and was cold. She said: "I respected the Scottish police but have been traumatized."
Peter Wilson, Fife chief constable and Acpos president, said officers had "demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times".
All the protesters denied the charges against them and are to face trials in the autumn.
[end item] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cgc3h
Of course one can agree with 'Fife chief constable and Acpos president' Peter Wilson, but isn't it about time we ask (and get published) the right questions, like with McNamara and his pension? Wilson said; "they demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times"?
For whom?
And we should we go to court in the autumn; where they ought to be seated?
German anti-Nazi Pastor Niemöller we all know, and maybe every day should remember what he said:
I wasn't a Communist so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists;
I wasn't in a Union so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Jews;
but I was a Christian, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Catholics;
I was a Protestant, so I didn't speak up.
THEN THEY CAME FOR ME;
AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK UP".
HR, it's quite obvious: If you do not fight today, tomorrow will be too late.
Journalists are killers too - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qpny
And, for all those who - like me - do not have the English language as their mother tongue: 'TGIF' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chvvy
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*The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !
*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Torture Court case against Rumsfeld moves on - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clpbf
*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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FPF - Amsterdam, July 15th - 2005 - The light at the end of the tunnel'? Even if many of us 'have seen the light', and heard the clanking sound of the war machine before, all the time there's this promising; the same as many of us heard General Westmoreland, McNamara and all those other lying officials say when in Vietnam. It's the same lousy brainwash again. But they never said anything about torturing your or me, or about My Lai [http://tinyurl.com/c3ecj] and other massacres like Falluja, the US's 'Guernica', which they and their people were responsible for.
When former US Defense Secretary McNamara was invited to give some kind of lecture in Stockholm's Grand Hotel in Sweden, he was invited by the conservative neocon newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. It's owned by the Wallenberg family [http://tinyurl.com/7cwy8] - which together with the Bonniers family, [http://tinyurl.com/dmszb] - run economy and media inSweden. In their hands the former social democratic country started to turn totalitarian, making the Swedes - who did not want this but hardly had a choice - into what British corespondent Roland Huntford described in his book "The NewTotalitarians." [http://tinyurl.com/9q2bc]
After listening to McNamara's irrelevant lecture to which I had been invited, and which had no bearing on reality, as many thought, I walked down the stairs from the 2nd floor in the Grand with him, asking him to sit down on a small floor in between. Mc Namara did - but after a lot of stupid small talk - refused to answer my question: "Why the hell did you wait until you were pensioned, catching the reward of your misbehavior? And why are you now now playing some kind of 'peace dove'?
As any war criminal in denial - Ncnamara did not understand that it had taken him too many decades and millions of lives to come to the same conclusion - which every small child which can think normally is taught and makes on earth - if you think it's wrong, don't do it! The lesson was learned by all others who suffered. But not by the torturers and killers, the Internationally Monetary Fund, IMF, or their murderous World Bank and their 'Jacjkals' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/adxzj
So, looking in the neocon's abyss which is in store for us, are we supposed to go back to our future? After - with a certain pleasure - having lived in Scandinavia for many years, I still thought that people's behavior - contrary to the present day mainstream media - is not not like the lemmings - http://tinyurl.com/7qjgo
I'm sorry to say however, that we are our own worst enemy, and that we are molded that way by those who want 'to use us'. Whether you are a journalist like me, or a worker who too thinks; he or she is 'only doing the right thing'. That's what they thought too: http://tinyurl.com/8v6no
This is anyhow what is on our doorstep, as Gary Braden wrote in the Evening Times of London: of the few people (compared to the overwhelming police force) who protested and got arrested, there have been eight which have dared to file complaints and accuse the British police of using torture. I have experienced the same in different countries as a correspondent, but most of you will never have been in foreign police cells, or have been taken into custody 'at home', yet...
WELL, HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY'S STORY, AND JUST THINK IT MAY BE YOU, YOUR FAMILY ETC.:
FOUR G8 protesters may sue police after claims they were psychologically tortured and mistreated while in custody in Glasgow. They say that officers at Baird Street woke them up every hour as a form of torture, placed them in dirty cells and fed them sub-standard food and water that left them sick.
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland refuted the claims.
Protester Dr Martin Kraemer, from Poland, claimed he was charged with a breach of the peace for refusing to stop playing his clarinet in Glasgow. The agricultural scientist said: "The police wanted to provoke violence. In the end I was arrested for playing the clarinet. I found that funny."
He claimed he was deprived of sleep, woke every half-hour, locked in a filthy cell, stripped down to his underwear and denied water for periods of time. He has made an official complaint against the police for violating his basic rights.
Businesswoman Zahra Quadir, 24, living in Edinburgh but originally from Afghanistan, said she was dragged without warning to a police van during a peaceful Glasgow protest. She claimed the cell she was later placed in had excrement on the wall, floor and around the toilet seat and was cold. She said: "I respected the Scottish police but have been traumatized."
Peter Wilson, Fife chief constable and Acpos president, said officers had "demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times".
All the protesters denied the charges against them and are to face trials in the autumn.
[end item] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cgc3h
Of course one can agree with 'Fife chief constable and Acpos president' Peter Wilson, but isn't it about time we ask (and get published) the right questions, like with McNamara and his pension? Wilson said; "they demonstrated a thoroughly professional and efficient service at all times"?
For whom?
And we should we go to court in the autumn; where they ought to be seated?
German anti-Nazi Pastor Niemöller we all know, and maybe every day should remember what he said:
I wasn't a Communist so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists;
I wasn't in a Union so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Jews;
but I was a Christian, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the Catholics;
I was a Protestant, so I didn't speak up.
THEN THEY CAME FOR ME;
AND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO SPEAK UP".
HR, it's quite obvious: If you do not fight today, tomorrow will be too late.
Journalists are killers too - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qpny
And, for all those who - like me - do not have the English language as their mother tongue: 'TGIF' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chvvy
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/3tro9
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
*The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !
*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Torture Court case against Rumsfeld moves on - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clpbf
*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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